school libraries

Presents learning plans for grades six through twelve that address developmental steps and differential abilities in Common Core State Standards key competencies. Sample lessons are aligned with key curriculum areas such as social studies, science, physical education, art, and music.

Offers new and inexperienced librarians an overview of library management systems, covering topics such as budgeting, television production, collaborating with teachers, and building a comprehensive collection.

"Focusing on the attempted and successful banning of young adult fiction from media centers and classrooms. It also looks closely at young adult novels from the early 1970s until today that have been the subject of book challenges"--Provided by publisher.

"Transform your library into a 'think tank' by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards"--Provided by publisher.

Text and color photographs explore rules in the library.

Presents comprehensive instruction on information literacy skills and discusses the trends, issues, and applications for the reviewed research as well as processing and diagnostic models and assessments.

An annotated list of one hundred books for children in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, selected by the author as the top-rated for 2010, each with a list of related titles and activity ideas. Includes information on listservs and blogs as well as readers' theater scripts and worksheets.

An annotated list of one hundred books for children in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, selected by the author as the top-rated for 2009, each with a list of related titles and activity ideas. Includes tips on evaluating books, a list of Freeman's all-time favorites, reader's theater scripts, and worksheets.

From the time of Plato, through the introduction of the printing press, Victorian morality, and the burning of the books in Nazi Germany, to the Family Friendly Libraries movement, faith, politics, and fear seem to have permeated the right to free expression.